It's neat, but with the exception of a few things most of what was demoed can already be accomplished with Apple's Motion and/or Adobe's After Effects.

I don't mean to sound negative towards that app, it looks pretty cool, but I hope they intend showcase a wider feature-set than what is demoed in that video.

Thanks for the link though.

Layer01

09-23-2007, 04:22 AM

mmmmm transcendental

i guess if you make mandalas this will be great? who knew there'd be a market for such a thing :P

Grim Beefer

09-23-2007, 07:35 AM

ok the program looks cool - but who want's to draw mandalas?

Almost entirely pointless.

Why does this exist?

You guys are being pretty culturally insensitive. Mandalas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala) are an important type of art for many the world over, even if not so much in the western nations. That being said, the program looks amazing.

cresshead

09-23-2007, 11:08 AM

yeah if you live in a pattern based art society where your not allowed to draw 'things' as they are in the realworld but have to make abstract patterens to adorne posters, books, web
and buildings then this is just the job app wise.

as above it's not intended for widespread use in the western world.

ringzero

09-23-2007, 11:47 AM

as above it's not intended for widespread use in the western world.

just as well

Geta-Ve

09-23-2007, 02:15 PM

just as well

I think I take offense to that..

bigbad

09-23-2007, 03:12 PM

The program costs 25$?(I read it somewhere). So if you have a job that demands this then its a given.

It would be a great asset to photoshop. Cause photoshop doesn't have these kind of stuff.

UrbanFuturistic

09-23-2007, 10:52 PM

Call me crazy but with some of the stuff in the video, the non-circular rotational stuff anyway, I can see it being an interesting and fast basis for non-procedural textures. The rotational symmetry could be used to decorate a jillion and one CG objects too, given that decorative art is everywhere from wallpaper to vases to clothes, even if it isn't a proper Mandala. Line up a few repeating shapes, use a warp tool to break the repetitiveness and work from there? I can already see it being used to speed up Celtic Cross designs.

I dunno, some people have no imagination :shrug:

slebed

09-24-2007, 12:18 AM

The program reminds me of a 21st century version of Deluxe Paint for the Amiga, same basic tools.

SJM

09-24-2007, 08:50 PM

Some things in there were pretty cool, though not a program i reckon i would be using ...

i guess if you make mandalas this will be great? who knew there'd be a market for such a thing :P

Hahaha! ;)

victor throe

09-27-2007, 12:21 PM

oh man that was awesome.....all i need now is a time machine and i will own the 60s

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